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by woko 5y ago
For the record, when Epic did their stunt on August 13, 2020, the margin went to the user. > Today, we’re also introducing a new way to pay on iOS and Android: Epic direct payment. > When you choose to use Epic direct payments, you sa
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by woko 5y ago
That is why I use Paypal. As a customer, why should I be constrained to use Apple's payment system as my only choice of middle-man?
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by woko 5y ago
> I would rather use Apple payment system. The price would be higher if you used Apple payment system. That is how companies would get consumers to be enticed to use other payment systems. That is what Epic did with their V-bucks: either
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by woko 5y ago
I don't understand how this works in favour of Apple. Imagine you had paid with any other third-party payment provider, e.g. Paypal. Wouldn't you have been able to cancel the recurring payment just as easily? Even with a CC paymen
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by woko 5y ago
> I understand why someone would fractionalize an NFT as a scheme to extract more money from suckers, but I don't get why someone would pay $ for owning a small portion of an NFT. Maybe these "suckers" do not understand wh
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by woko 5y ago
It reminds me of this movie quote: > I'm here to kick ass and chew bubblegum and I'm all out of bubblegum. Reference: https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/111729/
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by woko 5y ago
> while still being OK with high speed limits that kill thousands of people per year. The French government tried to tackle this issue. This lead to months of yellow-vest protests, close to a revolution at times. Some dude forced the doo
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by woko 5y ago
> People strongly want to believe that intelligence doesn't have a strong genetic component, I think mainly for moral reasons. More so because there is no proof for that. Individuals exhibit different levels of intelligence. Sure, l
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by woko 5y ago
Coined by an advertising agency.
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by woko 5y ago
I emulate it by deactivating as many notifications as possible, and manually checking replies after a few days or weeks, when I remember. I have noticed that what was a "hot" discussion often becomes pointless and laughable after
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by woko 5y ago
These "absolutists" are people looking for: - a service which would blindly accept money/crypto-money, - in exchange of a worldwide legal shield which would take all of the heat resulting from the user's anonymous ac
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by woko 5y ago
So that activist was the leader and social media coordinator of the group.
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by woko 5y ago
> what does Protonmail offer in terms of privacy that is better than GMail or Outlook Encryption. That was always the point. Your emails are stored encrypted, and nobody can read their content except you. Not sure why some people expecte
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by woko 5y ago
> I'll just use Gmail it's free. So that is your alternative... Not sure what your threat model was.
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by woko 5y ago
> I'll take my money elsewhere. Feel free to report where. Something tells me it ain't that easy to find a decent alternative.
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by woko 5y ago
A user with the intent to engage in unlawful activities should read the terms of services in full. If that user only reads the homepage of the service, without understanding the implication of each word, and does not bother to review the te
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by woko 5y ago
This is another amazing blog post by Matt Ferraro. You may remember his post last month about Poisson's Equation. For the past 2 blog posts, see: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=mattferraro.dev
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by woko 5y ago
With this in mind, the conclusion of the blog post is hilarious. Quotes from the blog post: > [The] rough idea is that if, say, Alice spoke to Bob for a long time and then Alice also spoke to Carol for a long time, then Bob and Carol are
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by woko 5y ago
The same way we have text classification for the spam in our mail inbox, couldn't someone train a model to classify issues as actionable bugs vs. noise for large projects like the one mentioned in the OP? Data would come from closed is
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by woko 5y ago
There is also a number of flagged pictures to reach before an individual is actually classified as a "positive" match. It is claimed that the chance of being a false-positive for a positive match is one out of a trillion. > Ap
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by woko 5y ago
I'd argue that I've been watching this play out in real time among other... parents. It is actually sad when you go outside and start noticing that people are glued to their phone screens, including parents who would rather look a
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by woko 5y ago
That is correct. When one runs `pip install dlib`, only a .tar.gz file is retrieved. Then the building process takes a long while! > Collecting dlib > Downloading dlib-19.22.0.tar.gz (7.4 MB) > || 7.4 MB 14.7 MB/s >
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by woko 5y ago
Absolutely not, or at least not yet, because: 1) the most contagious variants have emerged from countries with little to no vaccination: UK before vaccination and with very little protective measures (pubs, etc.), Brazil with Bolsonaro, Ind
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by woko 5y ago
Note sure what you mean by "a new metric". Sorting by "controversy" has been an option on Reddit for a long time. Most people won't use this option, but it exists. The formula is here: https://github.com&
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by woko 5y ago
There were 18 chimpanzees vs. 1 silverback. While the silverback was getting harassed by 10 chimpanzees, the gorilla infant could be targetted by the other chimpanzees. Moreover, the silverback was troubled by the presence of human observer
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by woko 5y ago
> 11. Retention of Information > All Information provided by you, save and except upon withdrawal or termination, shall be retained in locations outside the direct control of the Company (for instance, on servers or databases co-locat
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by woko 5y ago
It is mentioned in the README that there is a Gimp plugin for Christian Wolf's binarization. This could be handy at times. Otherwise, the C++ code on Github requires converting images to PGM format. --- The page is in French, so I will
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by woko 5y ago
Archive for people who cannot read Medium: https://web.archive.org/web/20210626084045/https://chrisavel...
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Chris Avellone about why he “didn’t fight any of this”(chrisavellone.medium.com)
132 points by woko 5y ago|34 comments
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by woko 5y ago
One can publish online a pre-print for free, which is very close to the final version of the paper.

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